Manifolding sales-book.



0. M. KIRKLAND.

MANIFOLDING SALES BOOK. APPLICATION FILED JULY 13, 1907.

PATENTED MAR. 24, 1908.

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Cha or c. M. KIRKLAND.

MANIFOLDING SALES BOOK. APPLICATION FILED JULY 13, 1907.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CARROLL M. KIRKLAND- OF ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA, ASSIGNOR TO GEORGE W. HUGHES, OF

ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA.

MANIFOLDING SALES-BOOK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March '24, 1908.

Application filed July 13, 1907. Serial No. 383,571.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CARROLL M. KIRK- LAND, a citizen of the United States, residing at St. Paul, in the county of Ramsey and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Manifolding Sales-Books, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in manifolding sales. books, particularly those designed for triplicate entries, and has for its object to improve the arrangement of carbon sheets and provide improved means for holding and manipulatin them, thereby, among other things, facilitating the use of sets of triplicate leaves made in one long three part sheet of uniform material and detachable as a whole, and enabling the carbon sheets to be conveniently, removably and securely held, and to be easily manipulated Without soiling the fingers.

To this end the invention consists in the construction, combination and arrangement of arts hereinafter described and claimed.

n the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the improved sales book s owing how the carbon sheets are manipulated; Fig. 2 is a section on line acx of Fig. 1, showing the carbon sheet holder and sales-leaves in side elevation; Fig. 3 is a side view of the carbon sheet holder alone, showing it opened forinsertion of a carbon sheet; Fig. 4 1s a cross section through the holder and carbon sheet on line zz of Fig. 2; Fig. 5 is a plan view of a book embodying a modified form of the invention; Fig. 6 is a section of the same on line -y of Fig. 4, showing the carbon sheet holder and sales-leaves in side elevation; Fig. 7 is a erspective view of the sales-leaves clamp s iown in Fig. 5, with the carbon sheet holder broken away; and Fig. 8 is a perspective view of so much of the book as ,is necessary to illustrate its use with both carbons carried by the holder.

In the drawings A represents a foldable cover, upon one leaf of which is secured a pack of folded triplicate sales-leaves 2 and upon the other lea of which are, tabular rulings 3 to receive summaries of the entries on the sales-leaves. The sales-leaves are made in sets of three, each set comprising a single sheet held at its binding edge in the spring (clamp 4, amlfolded up and back upon itself at the perforated creases 5 and 6 to form three sales-leaves. The sheets are placed one upon another and bound together at the top by suitable, means such as the stitching 7. In the forms shown in Figs. 1 and 5 a carbonsheet 8 a little shorter than the upper sales-leaf is placed upon the top of the ack and referably bound to it b means 0 the StltQdng 7. The pack is held at its upper or bindlng edge between the jaws of the spring clamp 4; It will be noticed that the s ieet is folded so that its upper bendor fold 6 shall be below and free from the clamp. Thus the sheet, being held at the top alone, can be freely unfolded and drawn out to its full length. The other carbon sheet 9 is held within a hinged holder arran ed at the side of the sales-leaves and hinged to swing in a plane at ri t angles with the binding edge of the pack The holder comprises a bar 10 having at the bottom hinge support 11 u on the cover or the strap 12 carried there y, and a cooperating clasp 13. The clasp is shown hinged at 14 to the bar 10 and is formed at the end with a spring hook 15 adapted to be sprung over a pm 16 upon the outer end of the bar. The op osing faces of the bar and clasp are forme with cooperatin means, such as the lon itudinal rib 17 on the bar and recess 18 in t 1e clasp, to gri andhold the carbonsheet or sheets place between. The inner side of the caron sheet is formed with a notch 19 at the bottom so that the sheet may extend down below the clas 13 and be manipulated without tearing. or the same reason the clasp is hinged to the bar 16 above the hinge 11.

In the form shown in Figs. 5 and 6 the holder is hinged upon a strap 21 which is carried by the clamp 4. This form 1s adapted for use with a paper or pasteboard cover which is not stiff enough to permit the clamp orholder to be riveted upon the cover as in the form shown in Figs. 1 and 2. Here the cover is stitched to the pack of sales sheets and held With the ack within the clamp. Thus the entire boo ma be removed from the clamp and holder ant replaced with another.

in the form shown in Fig. 8 the construction of the book and holder is the same as in Fig. 1 except that the carbon sheet 8 is removed from the clamp 4 and its place taken by a second carbon sheet 23 arranged in the v by the crease 5.

bonized upon one side only, and are ar-,

8, held at the top in the clamp 4, will lie upon the third (inner) sales-leaf, in the fold formed The carbon sheets are carranged with their carbonfaces down, so that when an entry is made upon the outer leaf it will be transferred by the carbon sheet 9 to the middle leaf, and by the carbon sheet 8 to the inner leaf. To detach the sheet after the entries have been made, the carbon sheet holder is taken between the fingers of one hand, and the farther corner of the outer sales-leaf in the fingers of the other hand, as illustrated in Fig. 1 The holder is then swung out on its hinge and the sales-sheet is simultaneously drawn down and sidewise, unfolding as it is pulled, when it may be torn ofi as a whole along the line of perforations 22 at the top. The three sales-leaves comprising it may then be separated from each other along the creases 5 and 6. To ad ust the carbon sheet 9 in the next set of salesleaves, the holder is swung out as before, and the outer sales-leaf of the set is taken by the corner and lifted over the partly raised carbon sheet, when the leaves will be ready for another entry. In performing these operations the fingers do not grasp the carbon sheets at all, and by having a swinging holder at the side of the sales-leaves I am enabled to arrange one or both carbons at the side of the leaves at right angles with the binding edges thereof, and thereby facilitate the use of sets of continuous three parts sales sheets which may be detached as a whole. The swinging holder makes it possible to manipulate carbon sheets thus arranged without tearing the seams sheets, as would be the case if the sheets were unyieldingly held to the cover. Where both carbon sheets areheld in the holder at the side, they are manipulated in the same way except that, as there are two sheets to adjust, one in each fold of the sales-sheet, the sales-sheet must be pulled out farther to permit the second carbon to be placed in the under fold.

I use the term sales book and salesleaves for convenience without meaning to limit myself thereby to the character of enalong the side edge of the pack and hinged at i the bottom so as to swing outwardly in a plane parallel with the side edges of the sales sheets, and a carbon sheet removably secured in the holder along its side edge and extending laterally over the sales-sheets.

2. In a manifolding sales-book, the combi nation, with a cover and a pack of salessheets removably secured to the cover at the top, of a carbon sheet holder arranged along the side edge of the pack and hinged at the. bottom upon the cover so as to be capable of being swung downwardly and outwardlv in a plane at right angles with the secured edge of the pack, and a carbon sheet rel'novably secured in the holder along its side edge in position to extend laterally over the sales sheets.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CARROLL M. KIRKLAND.

Witnesses:

ARTHUR P. LoTHRoP, HATTIE SMITH, 

